By The Admin on November 27, 2011
Haiti hip hop star Wyclef Jean says he’s proud of the way his charity responded after the earthquake almost two years ago.
He says his Yele Haiti Foundation rebuilt an orphanage and set up a system of outdoor toilet and shower facilities in one of the largest shanties in the Haitian capital.
Jean’s comments Sunday follow reports [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on November 27, 2011
Step into the sanctuary of the African Meeting House and you will walk on the same ancient floorboards where Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolitionists railed against slavery in the 19th century, and where free black men gathered to shape the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment.
Following a painstaking, $9 million restoration, [...]
Posted in Massachusetts, Race
By The Admin on November 27, 2011
All but three of North Carolina’s 157 death row inmates are waiting for their day in court to argue that racial bias played a role in their case. But the law that gives them hope is on shaky ground.
State lawmakers are scheduled to congregate in Raleigh tonight for the start of a three-day session that [...]
Posted in North Carolina, Race
By The Admin on November 27, 2011
On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community’s white constable.
That McNair was dead, and that Luther Steverson had killed him are about the only [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, Federal Government, State & Local News
By The Admin on November 27, 2011
The aroma of allspice wafted through the air as calypso melodies and gospel voices brought more than four dozen people to their feet, a typical community gathering in the heavily West Indian neighborhood of East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
But no one could remember a meeting like this happening before. Inside a former Seventh-day Adventist church, there were [...]
Posted in Race
